so instead of doing my homework like a good little grad student, i took a break to see what interesting headlines are in the news today & found something that is quite frightening.  don't know how many people have heard, but texas has been working on a bunch of revisions to their history textbooks which have caused some controversy.  normally i ( Read more... )

so because i'm starting to get sick of my research & timeripple insisted, i'm doing a post at long last.  things have been busy & i suppose it serves me right to have taken a history course in the summer when it's so hot & humid that i can't concentrate & don't want to do anything even though i have to write a research paper at the end of it all. 
( results of having too much salt )

happy february everyone!
ok, i know i said that i'd make a point to post more often, but my excuse is that life has a way of interfering with things, especially when it's grad school stuff.  so yeah.  i'll still try, but this semester looks like it'll kick my butt work wise, so we'll have to see.

in the mean time here is the next section of drama ( Read more... )

happy new year everyone!  one of my resolutions for this new year & new decade is going to be posting a bit more on this journal & focusing more on some topics, like wuxia & asian dramas.  at some point in my life, i will finish reading DGSD!

so to kick things off, i'm going to take this from timeripple  & create my own monster drama post, complete with any ( Read more... )

tomorrow i have my first day of class.  kind of looking forward to it & kind of not.  yes, because yay! intellectual stimulation, & no because there's things called homework, & papers & such.  i also don't know what to expect for this class.  it's all so new.

for the most part i'm now pretty settled into the new place with timeripple in boston, though i'm ( Read more... )

thank God it's no longer like that now, though tropical storm danny might have something different to say.

in any case, happy birthday to A.!  hope your day is a special one.

my parents are re-watching this kdrama called dae jang geum & for anybody who cares, it's one of the penultimate kdramas, since it apparently helped launch the international ( Read more... )

i'm really disliking the weather we've been having.  may in my opinion is supposed to be bright & sunny, but here we are in the doom & gloom, like it's october.  the only thing good about this weather is that my allergies aren't that bad.

i went to visit my friend last night for dinner & it's so hard to imagine, but she's going to be a mom soon.  ( Read more... )

we are coming to the end of the third week and in a way, i am starting to feel the effects of too much "vacation".  there are only so many books, movies, & dramas to watch, and i am coming to the end of my attention-span with them.  not to say that i have gone through my lists of things to read or watch.  quite the contrary, actually, but to a ( Read more... )

cold enough to snow, & yet it does not.  i hope we have a decent snowy winter this year, as opposed to the pathetic excuses for the season in the years past.  it was more like extended fall than anything else.  bleh ( Read more... )

so i finally finished LoCH tonight.  imgoodnes.  SO. GOOD.  the end theme just ties everything together so nicely, especially with the montage with all of the couples.

now i have to find something else to occupy my time.  someone please upload TLBB, ROCH or the smiling proud wanderer on youtube with english subtitles.  either that or finish the ( Read more... )